Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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As ill-luck would have it.
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When you are at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
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Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.
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Let us forget and forgive injuries.
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Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.
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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
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Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.
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I have other fish to fry.
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It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
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They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.
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You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.
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Soul of fibre and heart of oak.
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Honesty's the best policy.
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Great expectations are better than a poor possession.
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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness ...Maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.
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At this the duchess, laughing all the while, said: "Sancho Panza is right in all he has said, and will be right in all he shall say.
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There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things.
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Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.
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Though Gods attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.
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For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.
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Wit and humor belong to genius alone.
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Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.